Mornings awful commute it has to do with the issues with the Medical Center and water seeping into the tracks creating smoke. Congressional leaders were grilling metro leadis about the disrepair in the system. Illinois congressman dan lipinski says he regularly rides the red lierngs but not today. I said im getting on my bike to ride the 17 miles down to capitol hill because kwloen when im going to get in. I think metro in so many ways is unfortunately an embarrassment to our nations capitol. Maintenance teams havent had a chance to have meaningful repairs and this morning it turned into one brutal commute. At the height of it this morning some delays were reported for over an hour and so far tonight everything looks back to normal. Doreen . Adam tuss reporting. Thank you, adam. The race for the white house takes a surprise turn in virginia. A campaign mcauliffe is now under federal investigation and he calls for a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and is denying wrongdoing and our T
Good morning. A lot of the earlier construction has cleared out of the way. We still had road work hanging around 95 southbound at falmouth with the right lane blocked by the work zone. Its not slowing things too much this morning in the southbound lanes. Big look at the beltway. Overall, everything is rolling along quite nicely. You can see a little bit of a slowdown outbound for you there near the beltway. No report of anything but ill keep an eye on that one. 66 from Fairfax County parkway to the beltway, that takes you nine minutes. Listen to our friends on 103. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. Since our last report, we got more information out of afghanistan on that suicide bomb attack. Were hearing that 11 people have now been killed in the capital city of kabul. The Afghan Taliban saying that this was a revenge killing after some taliban prisoners were the attack happened right before the group confirmed that their former leader, mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a u. S. Dron
That just popped up. Braddock road west of 123, remember that is near george mason. We have a crash reported there just a short time ago. And taking a look here at the beltway, the beltway is looking good. Southbound Georgia Avenue at eastern avenue, we have the debris still report in the center of the roadway. Well have travel times in ten minutes. Thank you, melissa. 6 01 and today d. C. s quest for statehood could hit a big road block in congress. The house will vote on a bill to take away the districts ability to spend local tax dollars without congressional approval. Erika gonzalez is live at Freedom Plaza with strong words coming from the white house with todays vote. Erika . Reporter Senior Advisers say this is fundament to a wellfunctioning democracy and would recommend the president veto the republican bill. So this is part of a Statement Released yesterday. The administration is disappointed that the congress has failed to provide elected the most basic authority to spend loc
Gri grilling on capitol hill. He will testify before the Committee Just days ahead of the big travel city. The agency is still dealing with long lines at the airports. On tuesday he admitted there were failings at multiple levels. I think it is the case that we have had an institutional failure and not a failure of any one individual. Among the changes the agency announced this week was the creation of a centralized command team at tsa headquarters. More people are signing up for tsa precheck. The agency has received twice the applications since april doubling from 8,000 to 16,000. The application can be completed online but you still need to go through a tsa Service Center for fingerprinting. All five Service Centers in the backups. And the applications can take a month to be approved. Four things to know about todays weather. Chuck, where do you want to start . I want to start with how amazing it was to be outside yesterday and yes, indeed, warm and dry again for today. Made it back
Right now at 10 00 a local uber driver with a criminal pasta caused of trying to kill two Montgomery County Police Officers. Tonight, fox5 asks the Ride Share Program why this man was ever allowed behind the wheel. And then, a disturbing crime in mannasas. Two women and two children found bound and gagged inside of their home. The desperate search to find whoever did this. Plus, jumping to action to do the right thing. These robbers did not know who they were messing with when they crossed paths with a brave 7yearold boy. Fox 5 news at 10 starts right now. And we begin with the arrest of that d. C. Area uber driver im tony perkins. Im Sarah Simmons in for john. Henning threatened two officers with heres the story. Sarah, this man is actually facing 21 criminal charges including attempted murder and when you order an uber and get in one, sometimes you may find yourself with, well a rude driver. What you dont expect is to be riding with a convicted fell felon. Would you expect him to hav